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Rh the chair was taken by Mr. Edward Clodd, who congratulated the Society on its new departure, and expressed the thanks of its members to the College authorities for the liberality of the terms offered for accommodating them.

Dr. Gaster and Mr. Longworth Dames attended the meeting of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in July as delegates of the Society. Mr. A. F. Major, a member of the Council, has been appointed Hon. Secretary of the Committee on Ancient Earthworks of this Congress. He will be glad to receive communications bearing on the folklore of earthworks from any member of the Society. Miss Burne, Dr. Haddon, Mr. Sidney Hartland, Dr. C. S. Myers, Professor Myres, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, as President of the Anthropological Section, Dr. Seligmann, Major Tremearne, Miss Hull, and the President represented the Society at the meeting of the British Association at Portsmouth.

Members will have observed with interest that during the year four eminent members of the Society have received the honour of knighthood, namely, the father of the modern science of anthropology, Sir E. B. Tylor; the co-founder of the Society and its director in its early years, Sir Laurence Gomme; Sir Arthur Evans; and its eminent representative in Ireland, Sir B. C. A. Windle.

The twenty-second volume of Folk-Lore has been issued during the year. The Council have once more to tender their most cordial thanks to Mr. A. R. Wright for all the pains he has bestowed both in editing the volume and in the preparation of the index. The volume of the Annual Bibliography of Folklore, dealing with 1908, which it was hoped would have been ready at the beginning of last year, is nearly completed, and will be issued to members very shortly.

The extra volumes for 1911 will be Mr. J. S. Simpkins' collection of the Folklore of Fife from printed sources, and the new edition of the Handbook of Folklore. The Hand-